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you cannot compare making nuclear weapons to modifying viruses to be more lethal. It is vastly cheaper to modify viruses and the knowledge is bottleneck vs nuke
by UltraSane 2y ago
you cannot compare making nuclear weapons to modifying viruses to be more lethal. It is vastly cheaper to modify viruses and the knowledge is bottleneck vs nukes were the knowledge of how to make them is very widespread but getting the materials is very hard.
another example is if a LLM could tell you exactly how to build a tabletop laser device that could enrich uranium for a few hundred thousand dollars.
- SXX 2y agoLLMs are not AGIs. LLMs can only ever tell you how to build a device to enrich uranium for few hundred thousand dollars if this information was already public knowledge and LLM was trained on it. Situation is the same with building biolab tech for few hundred thousand dollars. Also if there was an actor who have few millions already they wouldn't have any problem to get their hands on any LLM or scientist who able to build it for them. The only "danger" LLM "safety" can prevent is generation of racist porn stories.
- UltraSane 2y agoWith the vast amounts of data LLMs are trained on they make it much easier for people to find harmful and dangerous information if they aren't filtered. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_isotopes_by_laser_excitation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_isotopes_by_lase...